Icecast - Feb 2006 - Re: Change Station Name

Hello.
I am new to this forum and relatively new to Icecast. I have set up and
Icecast broadcast from my computer using Winamp as the playlist and the SAM
Encoders to encode to WMA. The broadcast is running perfectly. The only
issue is when I create an ASX file that links to my broadcast, it shows my
IP address as the title of the broadcast. What do I need to do to change
this to a name of my choice?

Thank you.
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augman000 wrote:
> I am new to this forum and relatively new to Icecast. I have set up and
> Icecast broadcast from my computer using Winamp as the playlist and the SAM
> Encoders to encode to WMA.
uh.  No you're not.  Icecast2 doesn't handle WMA, or at least not WMA
over
MMS.  Whether or not there's a spec for WMA over HTTP I don't know, but
I
doubt it.  Of course, the SAM people might be mangling it and allowing you 
to do this or at least try, but my guess is that you're probably streaming 
MP3.
> The broadcast is running perfectly. The only
> issue is when I create an ASX file that links to my broadcast, it shows my
> IP address as the title of the broadcast. What do I need to do to change
> this to a name of my choice?
Can't answer this.  If it *is* MP3 you're sending, my recollection is
that
Windows Media player only has partial support for titles, etc.

I assume you've set a stream title in your streaming plugin?

Geoff.

I think that SAM streams WMA via both "push" and "pull".  In
the
"pull" case, listeners connect directly to the SAM encoder, 
alternatively you can configure a Windows Media Server to "pull" from 
your SAM encoder and then have listeners attach to that.  "Push" 
means SAM will send the WMA stream to a supported media server, which 
I think only happens to be the Windows Media Server.  Either way, as 
Geoff already said, Icecast doesn't play a part in any of this WMA 
streaming (push or pull), and so your question is not related to 
icecast at all, but rather simply WMA streaming.  I doubt you'll get 
much more help that I just gave on how to do WMA streaming from this list.

perhaps you can try the SAM forums ?

oddsock
At 12:08 PM 2/12/2006, Geoff Shang wrote:
>augman000 wrote:
>
>>I am new to this forum and relatively new to Icecast. I have set up and
>>Icecast broadcast from my computer using Winamp as the playlist and the
SAM
>>Encoders to encode to WMA.
>
>uh.  No you're not.  Icecast2 doesn't handle WMA, or at least not 
>WMA over MMS.  Whether or not there's a spec for WMA over HTTP I 
>don't know, but I doubt it.  Of course, the SAM people might be 
>mangling it and allowing you to do this or at least try, but my 
>guess is that you're probably streaming MP3.
>
>>The broadcast is running perfectly. The only
>>issue is when I create an ASX file that links to my broadcast, it shows
my
>>IP address as the title of the broadcast. What do I need to do to change
>>this to a name of my choice?
>
>Can't answer this.  If it *is* MP3 you're sending, my recollection 
>is that Windows Media player only has partial support for titles, etc.
>
>I assume you've set a stream title in your streaming plugin?
>
>Geoff.
>
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